Tool has announced a $65 version of “Fear Inoculum” with new artwork from guitarist Adam Jones housed in a triple gatefold jacket with an exclusive poster, available here for pre-order. The vinyl is out on August 5.
The price of this regular edition of the album falls pretty well in line with what you’d expect a 3xLP record to cost, and a far cry from the band’s personal allotment of signed “Fear Inoculum” vinyl box sets on tour, which went for a whopping $810 each, or even for the retail version of the box set which sold for for $180.
“Fear Inoculum” vinyl tracklisting:
Disc 1: “Fear Inoculum,” “Pneuma,” and “Invincible”
Disc 2: “Legion Inoculant,” “Descending,” “Culling Voices,” and “Chocolate Chip Trip”
Disc 3: “7empest” and “Mockingbeat”
Quite possibly the era’s most highly-anticipated album,“Fear Inoculum” arrived in August of 2019. Debuting at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200, the album earned heaps of critical praise with NPR saying, “Fear Inoculum was worth the 13 year wait,” Revolver proclaiming the album “a masterpiece to be dissected for years to come” and Consequence saying the release finds “Tool in peak performance.”
Earlier this year, Tool released “Opiate2”, a re-imagined and extended version of the 1992 EP’s title track and an accompanying short film, marking the band’s first new video in 15 years. Check that out below.